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SyFy's Alice

Being pleasantly barely not American shouldn't be no guarantee of hotness, but amazingly so, as a constant rule it's holding true.
 
It's becoming a rule that Canadian women are hot: Elisha Cuthbert, Tricia Helfer, Shania Twain, Anna Paquin, Evangeline Lilly, Ellen Page, Cobie Smulders, Rachael McAdams. And probably a bunch more.
 
OI!

Don't go giving away my national heritage and identity to those bloody undeserving canucks!

Anna Paquin was born and bred in New Zealand.

:)

You forgot the most beautiful of them all however...

Wonderfall's Caroline Dhavernas.
 
Missed part one Dec 6 Missed again early Dec 7 evening. The Guide on cable doesn't indicate which segments Dec 7 evening through Dec 8 early AM are part one and which are part two. Tuned in at 2300 EST to hear "previously on Alice....".

What are they doing, repeating part two three times in a row?

I said "To he" double hockey sticks " with it" and decided not to bother with it any more.
 
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Missed part one Dec 6 Missed again early Dec 7 evening. The Guide on cable doesn't indicate which segments Dec 7 evening through Dec 8 early AM are part one and which are part two. Tuned in at 2300 EST to hear "previously on Alice....".

What are they doing, repeating part two three times in a row?

They want the miniseries to get horrible ratings so they don't have greenlight an actual series.:rommie:
 
Any word on the ratings yet? I'm watching part two now as we speak and it's still boring and uninteresting but the missus wants to see the rest of it.
 
The ratings (final numbers):

Part 1: 2.454 million viewers (1.5/2 HH and 1.0/3 A18-49)
Part 2: 2.118 million viewers (1.3/2 HH and 0.9/2 A18-49)

Those are fairly decent numbers by Syfy standards, but any hope they had of duplicating the huge success of Tin Man (the first part of which remains the highest rated telecast in the channel's history to date) didn't come to fruition. Tin Man drew 6.3 million viewers for its first part, 4.4 million for its second, and 5.1 million for its third.

For comparison purposes here are the ratings for AMC's The Prisoner:

First night: 2.219 million viewers (1.4/2 HH and 0.8/2 A18-49)
Second night: 0.948 million viewers (0.7/1 HH and 0.3.1 A18-49)
Third night: 0.947 million viewers (0.6/1 HH and 0.3/1 A18-49)

Edit to add: I came across the audience for some of Syfy's past December event miniseries:

Tin Man (2007) - Averaged 5.3 million viewers.
Taken (2002) - Averaged 5 million viewers.
Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) - Averaged 4.6 million viewers (Children of Dune, aired in March 2003, averaged 2.7 million viewers).
Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Averaged 4.2 million viewers.
The Lost Room (2006) - 2.1 million viewers for its first part.
 
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I thought the second part seemed better than the first. Mind you, I was really tired when part one was on but that was my impression.
 
Tin Man drew 6.3 million viewers for its first part, 4.4 million for its second, and 5.1 million for its third.

I'm really surprised they didn't make a series out of Tin Man. Those ratings beat the BSG miniseries! It might have been cool to have a Wizard of Oz tv series.
 
I found the audience numbers for the other two December event minis:

The Triangle (2005) - Averaged 4.2 million viewers.
Earthsea (2004) - Averaged 3.7 million viewers.

Although it's not a disastrous performance, Syfy must be very disappointed with the ratings for Alice. They obviously had high hopes for it and didn't expect it to end up being their second lowest rated December mini to date.
 
Also, those numbers put the mini in the range of an SG or BSG episode. It's hard to justify the added cost of a mini-series when an extra couple episodes of a TV show can do as well.
 
Wow, that is perplexing. Why did Tin Man do such insanely good numbers when Alice only did a third of that? They're basically the same thing. Could Zoey Deschanel's star power have something to do with it?
 
Have you seen that wry smile of Zooey Deschanel looking through people like they're on crack?

You forgive a lot for that "girl nextdoor" girl.

I'm a whore for the worst TV, but I didn't tune in for the second episode of Tinman, but it did make me crestlorne for Return to Oz... Whent he Hell are they going to do something with Wicked is my quest?
 
Tin Man drew 6.3 million viewers for its first part, 4.4 million for its second, and 5.1 million for its third.

I'm really surprised they didn't make a series out of Tin Man. Those ratings beat the BSG miniseries! It might have been cool to have a Wizard of Oz tv series.

There was talk about making a Tim Man show, don't know what happened to that.

Alice sucked, and so did Tin Man in my PoV. :lol:

Alice was only better because it was shorter, but the whole thing should have been a SyFy Saturday Night movie.
 
^Huh? The Lost Boys was a 1987 Joel Schumacher film about teenage vampires. Or the midseason finale of Stargate Atlantis's second season. Is it possible you're misremembering the SciFi Channel miniseries The Lost Room, which had nothing remotely to do with Peter Pan but was vaguely similar to Warehouse 13 in that it was driven by the hunt for artifacts with mystical powers?
 
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